Watermelon-carrier.



PATENI'ED MAR. 24, 1908 C. A. WOODWARD-v WATBRMELON CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED 00119, 1907.

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CLARENCE A. WOODWARD, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

WATE RME LON-CARRIER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908.

Application filed October 19, 1907. Serial No. 398,301.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE A. W001)- WARD, citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have inventedcertain new and useful'lmprovements in Watermelon-Carriers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention contemplates certain new and useful improvements inpackage and article carriers, and relates particularly to a devicedesigned especially for carrying watermelons.

The invention has for its object an improved device of this characterwhich may be very cheaply made and which embodies very few parts ofsimple, and durable construction that may be readily assembled and thatwill be efficient in operation, and the invention consists in certainconstructions and arrangements of the parts that I shall hereinafterfully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to behad tothefollowing description and accompanying drawings, in which;

Figure 1 is a view illustrating my improved carrier secured to awatermelon, and Fig. 2 is a-detail perspective view of the carrierdetached.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all'the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

My improved watermelon carrier comprises two hooks 1 which are formed ofstrips of brass or steel, or other sufliciently stiff metal or materialof less width than length and which comprise two members disposed at anacute angle with respect to each other as shown. One of these members issharpened or pointed at its outer end, as indicated at 2, and the othermember is formed at its extremity with an aperture 3. These two hooks 1are connected together by a flexible suspension member 4 in the natureof a cord or chain, preferably the former, the ends of the cord beingmerely inserted through the apertures 3 in the respective hooks 1 andtied to the hooks as shown. A hollow handle 5,

of wood or any other substance or material is slipped over thesuspension cord 4, before either one or both ends of said cord areattached to the hooks.

In the practical use of my improved watermelon carrier, the hooks 1 areapplied to the opposite sides of the melon at the proper points thereon,according to the size of the melon, and the pointed or spur members 2are caused to penetrate the rind so as to partially embed the hookstherein, whereupon it is obvious that the melon may be easily carriedsuspended from the device, by the operator merely grasping the handle 5.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, it will be seen that I have provided a very cheap and simplewatermelon carrier embodying only four parts, and one that may be easilystored away in one s pocket until desired for use and one that may beeasily applied to the melon to suspend the same from the handle 5,irrespective of the size of the melon, as the device is manifestlyadaptable to any size melon, owing to the entire independence of the twohooks 1.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

The herein described watermelon carrier, consisting of a handle, asuspension cord on which said handle is mounted and two independenthooks, each of said hooks consisting of a relatively narrow stripembodying two members disposed at an acute angle to each other, one ofsaid members of each hook being tapered to a point so as to penetratethe rind of a melon, and the other member of each hook being formed withan aperture, the ends of the suspension cord being inserted through andtied in the apertures. and terminating thereat, as and for the purposeset forth.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLARENCE A. WOODWARD. [1 s] lVitnesses:

JOHN B. MoGRAw, AUGUSTUS W. BRADFORD.

